You are so clever you look down upon my humbleness.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

En las costas son colosales, y los diámetros enormes, los troncos derechos, perpendiculares, y dejando entre sí grandes espacios vacíos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

These are your studied cares, your lewd delight: Swift to debauch, but slow to manly fight.”
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

It ain't natural he should; and she don't say, "Charles, you look dull, dear," nor he reply, "Well, to tell you the truth, it is devilish dull here, that's a fact," nor she say, "Why, you are very complimentary," nor he rejoin, "No, I don't mean it as a compliment, but to state it as a fact, what that Yankee, what is his name?
— from Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Mr. Dinsmore was as good as his word; their chat had lasted more than an hour when his summons came, yet Lucy declared it had not been half long enough, and would not be satisfied to let Elsie go without a promise to come again very soon.
— from Elsie's Womanhood by Martha Finley

Then there are gowns and caps for senators, suits for torchbearers and janissaries, shepherds' coats, yellow leather doublets for clowns, robes of rich taffety and damask, suits of russet and of frieze, fools' caps and bells, cloth of gold, French hose, surplices, shirts, farthingales, jerkins, and white cotton stockings.
— from A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook

But I never counted upon being beaten so thoroughly as I was; for knowing me now to be off my guard, the young hussy stopped at the farmyard gate, as if with a brier entangling her, and while I was stooping to take it away, she looked me full in the face by the moonlight, and jerked out quite suddenly,— 'Can your love do a collop, John?' 'No, I should hope not,' I answered rashly; 'she is not a mere cook-maid I should hope.'
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Now at such time as either the vnseasonablenesse of the weather, Of foyling. or the growth of your grasse shall hinder you from following that businesse of Haruest, you shall then looke into your fallow or tilth field againe, and whereas before at your Summer-stirring you Plowed your land vpward, now you shall beginne to foile, that is to say, you shall cast your land downe againe, and open the ridge: and this Ardor of all other Ardors you must by no meanes neglect vpon the gray, white clay, because it being most subiect vnto wéede, and the hardest to bring to a fine mould, this Ardor of all others, doth both consume the one and makes perfect the other, and the drier season you doe foile your land in, the better it is, and the more it doth breake and sunder the clots in pieces: for as in Summer-stirring the greater clots you raise vp, and the rougher your land lies the better it is, because it is a token of great store of mould, so when you foile, the more you breake the clots in pieces the better season will your land take, and the richer it wilbe when the séede is sowne into it:
— from The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments by Gervase Markham

Just when people start calling you long distance you get seared.
— from Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission